Let's Make It (Audio Only) - Tech-zen.tv
Summary: Let's Make It is a show that is all about making things, in particular electronic things. During this show we will be using things like Arduinos, PIC chips and Raspberry Pie's to make all kinds of electronic gadgets. We are making these gadgets to learn how they work. Not technical, not to worry, we are going to start really simple and teach you as we go along. All it requires is a desire to want to learn some programming and electronics. This show is hosted by Mike Myers of Genius Idea Studio. Mike has many years of designing hardware and developing software for the hardware. If you have ever followed the Maker Community then this show is for you. Want to learn some basic programming and electronics? This is the show to get you started.
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This week we create a working stoplight with an Arduino. And we go so much further than just blinking lights. We have 2 stop lights and sensors to know when a car is waiting. Also, in this episode we introduce state tables and a new structure that we have not talked about before, the switch or case statement. You even get to see me mess up by not saving my examples before the show. But this is good because it demonstrates just easy it is switch the cascading if-then-else to a switch/case structure.
This week we teach the Arduino Morse Code. We send your messages via Morse Code.
This week on Let's Make It we have some sensor fun. We play with 5 different sensors connected to the arduino. And you get to watch as we have a colossal failure with one of the sensors. We did not edit it out so you get to see the problems we had. Funny how things stop working when it is show time. We show you the Virtuabotix DHT11 Digital Temperature / humidity sensor, The Virtuabotix MMA7361 Three Axis Accelerometer, the HC-SR501 Human Sensor Module (motion detector), The Ultrasonic HC-SR04 Distance Sensor, and our big failure this week, the SainSmart Color Recognition / Discrimination Sensor TCS3200d / TCS230D.
This week we continue the LCD discussion and show you how we got a serial (I2C) interface to an LCD to work. We also show you a graphical display and the start of a new library we are creating for it. We also, ordered and received since our last show the LCD shield from sainsmart. We show you the simple change you need to make to the sample sketches to get them to work with this shield. Also, how they implemented to buttons to save the number of pins used.
This week we are going to show how simple it is use an LCD with an Arduino. We will use the LCD in future episodes to output information from Sensors and for debugging other applications. We will give you a schematic so you can quickly connect an LCD to your Arduino. You will learn how to scroll text, blink text and much more.
In this episode we pick up where we left off last week and add in a breadboard with some buttons to show how the Arduino can take input from the outside using something as simple as a button. We also cover what button bounce is and some features that are built into the Arduino that will pull a pin to high so that you do not need a resistor in the button circuit. Lots of good stuff this week.
In this, our 2nd episode of this new show we take a look at the Arduino and everything it can do. Then we get our hand dirty by creating a couple of programs (called Sketches in the Arduino). The programs are very simple, so do not worry, no prior programming experience is necessary.
This is our very first episode of Lets Make It. In this episode we introduce ourselves and talk a little about what is coming up. Hint: It is Arduino, Raspberry Pie, PIC Chips, Circuit Design and PC Board Manufacturing. Fun stuff!
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